Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya on Thursday hailed the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government and the Indian Air Force (IAF) for evacuating 348 Indian nationals stranded in Yemen.
"Let us thank the Government of India for making such arrangements and the Indian air-force to bring our people back. We received 190 people at Mumbai airport who were stranded in Yemen, they are feeling happy and free," Somaiya said.
Somaiya pointed out that External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis are personally monitoring the situation.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that a total number of 348 Indian nationals, who have been evacuated from strife-torn Yemen's Aden city to Djibouti, will be home soon.
Minister of State for External Affairs General (Retd.) V.K. Singh, who was in Djibouti to oversee the evacuation process, assured the evacuated people that they were safe now.
The evacuation operation took place amid the escalating violence in Yemen.